Red Hat's issues in considering the D language

[Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d]

Am Wed, 21 Dec 2016 15:46:19 +0000
schrieb Gerald <gerald.b.nunn at gmail.com>:

> Given that DMD is a non-starter for Linux packages, how feasible 
> is it to simply deprecate GDC and declare LDC as the 
> reference/production compiler for D?

Hey, GDC is still in active development ;-) We need some more time to
catch up but we'll get there.

OTOH if people start compiling recent D code with compilers from
debian stable you'll have to support old frontend versions anyway :-P